LHC First Data

from Sunday 12 December 2010 (08:00) to Tuesday 14 December 2010 (18:00)
University of Michigan (BSRB Auditorium)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
12 Dec 2010
13 Dec 2010
14 Dec 2010
AM
09:00
LHC Status - Homer Alfred Neal (High Energy Physics) (until 12:30)
09:00 Welcome by UM Provost - Philip J. Hanlon (University of Michigan)  
09:10 LHC Status and Plans - Mike Lamont (CERN)  
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09:40 CMS Status - Todd Adams (Department of Physics, B-159 - Florida State University)  
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10:10 ATLAS Status - Hong Ma (Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL))  
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10:40 --- Break ---
11:00 Alice Status - Prof. Jennifer Klay (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo)  
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11:30 LHCb Status - Miriam Calvo Gomez (Universidad de Barcelona)  
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12:00 Targets for early discoveries - Liantao Wang (Princeton University)  
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08:30 --- Breakfast in seminar rooms ---
09:00
EW/Higgs - Jonas Strandberg (University of Michigan) (until 12:30)
09:00 W and Z physics with CMS - Kalanand Mishra (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (Fermilab))  
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09:30 W and Z physics with ATLAS - Goetz Gaycken (PI - Universität Bonn)  
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10:00 Diboson physics (ATLAS/CMS) - Dr Haijun Yang (University of Michigan)  
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10:30 --- break ---
10:50 Can there be no Higgs boson? - Csaba Csaki (Cornell University)  
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11:20 Higgs search at Tevatron (CDF/D0) - Dr Tom Wright (University of Michigan)  
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11:50 Higgs searches at LHC (ATLAS/CMS) - David Lopes-Pegna (Princeton University)  
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08:30 --- Breakfast in seminar rooms ---
09:00
SUSY and Dark Matter Searches - Natalia Panikashvili (Department of Physics) (until 12:30)
09:00 Dark Matter, SUSY, and the LHC - Prof. Brent Nelson (Northeastern University)  
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09:30 Status of Dark Matter Searches - Neal Weiner (NYU)  
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10:00 SUSY searches with early ATLAS data - Matthew Cleary Tamsett (College of Engineering and Science-Louisiana Technical Universit)  
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10:30 --- break ---
11:00 SUSY searches with early CMS data - Yousi Ma (California Institute of Technology)  
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11:30 SUSY search prospects with 1fb data (ATLAS/CMS) - Rasmus Mackeprang (Niels Bohr Institute)  
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12:00 Kinematic techniques for events with new missing particles - Ben Matthew Gripaios  
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PM
12:30 --- Lunch (in house) ---
14:00
QCD - Aaron Pierce (University of Michigan) (until 18:00)
14:00 Jet and photon physics with CMS - Prof. Colin Jessop (Notre Dame)  
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14:30 Jet and photon physics with ATLAS - F Bucci (Universite de Geneve)  
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15:00 W/Z+jets with ATLAS - Alexander Paramonov (Argonne National Laboratory)  
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15:30 --- Break ---
16:00 W/Z+jets with CMS - Dr Jonathan Z Efron (University of Wisconsin)  
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16:30 Monte Carlo facing real data - Richard D. Field  
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17:00 Properties of non-pQCD events at 7TeV (ATLAS/CMS) - Wei Li (MIT)  
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17:30 Future Prospects for QCD computation - Zvi Bern  
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12:30 --- Lunch (in house) ---
14:00
Bottom and Top -Dr Tom Wright (University of Michigan) (until 18:20)
14:00 Top physics at the Tevatron (CDF/D0) - Amitabha Das  
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14:35 Recent B-physics results from Tevatron - Robert Francis Harr (Department of Physics and Astronomy-College of Science-Wayne Sta)  
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15:00 Bottom and Top and new physics - Bogdan Dobrescu (FNAL)  
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15:30 B physics with CMS - Giordano Cerizza (University of Tennessee)  
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15:55 --- break ---
16:25 B physics with ATLAS - Xinchou Lou (Department of Physics-University of Texas at Dallas-Unknown)  
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16:50 B physics with LHCb - Themis Bowcock (CERN)  
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17:20 Top physics with ATLAS - Martijn Gosselink (NIKHEF)  
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17:50 Top physics with CMS - Kevin Lannon (University of Notre Dame)  
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18:45 --- Banquet in BSRB Atrium (ground level) ---
12:30 --- lunch (in house) ---
14:00
Other New Physics - Liantao Wang (Princeton University) (until 18:00)
14:00 Searches at Tevatron (D0/CDF) - Ioannis Katsanos (University of Nebraska–Lincoln)  
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14:30 Searches and new limits with CMS - Jie Chen (Florida State Univ.)  
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15:00 Searches and new limits with ATLAS - Sing Cheung (Department of Physics-University of Toronto-Unknown)  
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15:30 Heavy ion physics at LHC (Alice) - Prof. Sergei Voloshin (Wayne State University)  
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16:00 --- break ---
16:30 Latest Heavy Ions Results from ATLAS - Brian Cole (Physics Dept., Pupin Physics Lab.-Columbia University-Unknown)  
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17:00 Distinguishing look-alike interpretations on new physics - Maria Spiropulu (CERN)  
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17:30 Long-term prospects for discovering new physics at the LHC - Joe Lykken (FNAL)  
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